Two days ago, PEOPLE published a post about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, and how the fact that JLo was at Ben’s son Samuel’s basketball game the other day was “a good sign”.
“A source who knows both the actor-director, 51, and actress-singer, 54, tells PEOPLE that their joint appearance at a recent basketball game for Affleck's 12-year-old son Samuel bodes well for how they are handling the current difficulties of their relationship.
"It's a good sign they were at the game together," the insider says of Affleck and Lopez's attendance at the event, where Affleck's ex-wife and Samuel’s mom, Jennifer Garner, was also pictured.”
That’s it, that was the entire story, the best quote that they could get from a source. And it’s vague as f-ck. Because “a good sign” could mean anything. “A good sign” could be that, sure, they’re going to make it work. But “a good sign” might also mean that they’re handling it amicably, that whatever issues there are between them haven’t resulted in an acrimonious relationship – even if they won’t be able to work their sh-t out.
There is, however, a bad sign that has now popped up. The Daily Mail reported yesterday that photos of the $60 million home they bought together last year, where Ben has NOT been living for a number of weeks now, along with a description, were posted on Zillow on June 1 and June 5, suggesting that perhaps the property will soon be listed for sale…although it is currently still listed as “sold”. Buried in the Daily Mail’s story is this sentence:
“A representative for J Lo pointed out that the images themselves are not new.”
Still. It’s not looking good. Like there’s no reason for the images to be there at all if, well, things were well. Or if there’s the hope that they will be well, or better? So now I go back to making things about me and Sarah. Because it’s Thursday and tomorrow is Friday, and we’ve been on Friday dump alert for weeks now and is one of us going to have to be checking our phones every few minutes tomorrow afternoon in the event there’s some kind of announcement? I’m in Vancouver this week and after days and days of rain, the sun has finally come out here and it’s supposed to be gorgeous on Friday and I do not want to be wasting my Friday night writing about a possible Bennifer breakup! Why couldn’t they do this in the winter – if there is any “this” to be doing?! Anyway, I guess we’ll know when we know. And if there is something to know, head over to The Squawk and talk about it over there while one of us, probably me, finishes writing the post. (Sarah: I will DEFINITELY make it Lainey’s problem!)
In the meantime, Jesus, the details about this house: 17 bedrooms, 30 bathrooms, and enough space to park 80 cars if they’re having people over. And by people, I mean an entire village, holy sh-t. It’s the bathrooms for me though. There’s basically two bathrooms for every bedroom, and I can’t wrap my head around the necessity for that many of them because I don’t have a rich brain. How do you even use that many bathrooms?! If this were me, I’d be compelled to pee in a different bathroom every time I have to go. I just calculated – I pee on average once an hour (yes, I have a small bladder and I drink lots of water). I’m awake for an average of 17 hours a day. And yet! If I spent a day in that house and went in a different bathroom for every pee, I’d still only use just over half of the available bathrooms!
Let's Squawk about Bennifer and their excessive number of bathrooms today. (app link here)
